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Why You Should Avoid Employee Comparisons During Performance Reviews at All Costs
It’s no secret that employee performance reviews are a critical pillar of any organization’s success. Without them, it’s almost impossible to retain employees and improve your workforce in terms of growth, performance, and productivity. While they are essential, they do consume a significant amount of company resources and time. This makes it all the more […]
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How To Design Employee Performance Reviews for Millennials
One of the primary goals for any organization should be retaining its best-performing employees in the long run. Of course, this is easier said than done and requires many different factors. But when it comes to retaining employees, performance reviews play an important role. Performance reviews need to deliver what’s expected and help employees grow […]
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How to Complete a Performance Review Self-Evaluation
Performance reviews have been an integral part of the successful running of an organization for a long time. But in recent years, the importance of conducting performance reviews the right way has become prominent. It’s no longer sufficient for employees to undergo a singular, mediocre annual review. Organizations are taking far more care to ensure […]
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Common Performance Review Biases and How to Avoid Them
Bias is a sensitive topic, one that many of us avoid talking about all together, and thus needs to be handled carefully. Hear the word bias, whether performance related or otherwise, and most people equate it with prejudice. What does this mean? It’s difficult for people to admit, or even comprehend, if and when they […]
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Boost Employee Performance by Improving Your Performance Reviews
It tends to be the case in far too many organizations that employees dread their performance reviews. Often, they feel discouraged or defensive afterward and tend not to see the value and benefits that could come of a well-conducted review. Understanding and preparing for performance reviews as a leader is essential. Performance reviews involve a […]
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The Best Questions to Ask an Employee During a Performance Review
Conducting successful performance reviews requires you to do much more than simply have a one-on-one discussion with your employee. Successful performance reviews require Human Resources to work in conjunction with managers to gain insight into performance. This requires performance reviews to be structured, it can’t just be a free for all conversation. And structure requires […]
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How To Make Employee Performance Reviews More Motivational
Performance reviews should be a source of motivation for employees, but most of the time, they dread their reviews and leave feeling disheartened or defensive. Tackling performance reviews effectively requires some understanding and preparation. There’s a skillset behind developing and delivering the ideal performance review; one that motivates your employees to improve rather than leaves […]
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Check-Ins, One-on-Ones, and Performance Reviews: Answering Your Questions about Frequency
Performance management is something of a balancing act. It involves check-ins, One-on-ones, reviews, feedback and more. Managers and other leaders must provide actionable feedback so that employees can change their behavior for the better, but must do so in a way that is both timely yet not overbearing. There’s also the fact that providing such […]
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The Most Important Questions to Ask During a Performance Review
Performance reviews – they’re often the bane of an employee’s existence. They can feel arbitrary, one-sided, even summarily dismissed. They don’t have to be that way, though. When combined with modern performance management techniques, such as regular check-ins and one-one-ones, full-blown performance reviews can once more regain their position as valuable tools that encourage both […]
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Supercharging Your Performance Reviews: What You Need to Know
Chances are good you’ve heard about the death of the annual performance review. Those rumors are greatly exaggerated. What’s really gone away is the “annual” part of the equation. Performance reviews still play crucial roles in helping your employees become their best selves. Of course, there are performance reviews and then there are effective performance […]